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Scientism Is a World View, It Is Not Science
Science rests on unprovable axioms as well. Science necessarily assumes, but cannot empirically prove, that an external reality exists. Stoicism's providence or adam's disjunction highlights an inquiry into the dential choice between two distinct world views. Scientists who claim to have answers to these questions are not practising science. Instead, they are engaging in ism. Scientism is a world view, it is not science,. To be quite frank, the stoics struggled with those same philosophical questions in ancient times.